Landscape Painting Quiz: Artists Who Love the Land

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. What is a landscape artist a lot like, according to the text?
A) A doctor
B) A magician
C) A teacher
D) A pilot

2. What do artists use to make trees, lakes, and clouds in a painting?
A) Crayons only
B) Paint
C) Chalk
D) Glue

3. A landscape artist does NOT have to paint exactly what he or she sees. True or False — which answer matches the text?
A) True, the artist can add or take away things like trees or rocks
B) False, the artist must copy everything exactly like a camera
C) True, but only rivers can be changed
D) False, artists may only paint indoors

4. Where did Winslow Homer build his studio?
A) In the desert
B) In Yellowstone
C) By the ocean in Maine
D) In California

5. Who painted pictures of Native Americans and traveled along the Missouri River?
A) Thomas Moran
B) Albert Bierstadt
C) Winslow Homer
D) George Catlin

6. Which artist painted the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone?
A) George Catlin
B) Thomas Moran
C) Albert Bierstadt
D) Winslow Homer

7. What is one "space trick" artists use to make a flat painting look deep, like it goes on for miles?
A) Using only one color
B) A winding path or river
C) Painting very small pictures
D) Leaving the canvas blank

8. What did Winslow Homer say the ocean looked like when it was calm?
A) A raging storm
B) A duck pond
C) A mountain
D) A desert

Short-Answer Questions

9. Name one thing an artist can paint that is made of "colors squeezed out of a paint tube."

10. Why did artists like Catlin, Moran, and Bierstadt travel west?

11. What is one way a landscape artist can make a nearby object look close and a faraway object look far away?

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Answer Key

1. B) A magician
2. B) Paint
3. A) True, the artist can add or take away things like trees or rocks
4. C) By the ocean in Maine
5. D) George Catlin
6. B) Thomas Moran
7. B) A winding path or river
8. B) A duck pond
9. Accept any reasonable answer from the text, such as trees, lakes, waterfalls, grasses, or clouds.
10. They were lured west by the raw power of unexplored rivers, mountains, and canyons, and joined expeditions to make a visual record of the land.
11. Accept any of the "space tricks" described, such as making close things bigger than far-away things (change in size), overlapping objects, making far-away things hazier (change in clarity), or using a winding path/diagonal lines.